So, deliciously and unusually, London is host to two remarkably different exhibitions on architecture. At Tate Modern you find the grimy reality of city life, dressed up a bit. At the Design Museum you get the full-on adoration of the architectural superstar, Zaha as the icing on the urban cake. Is there any possible way of reconciling these two approaches?
Funnily enough, there is. It's at Tate Modern, and it is Nigel Coates's Mixtacity. > Hugh Pearman's Gabion (Sunday Times)
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It sounds like the author has been hit with the anti-starchitecture bug, he's bored. And he made a good point:
"Coates has imagined a whole megalopolis where every building is a landmark of one kind or other. Impossibly, there is nothing average to be found. Every little bit of it contrives to be special. Now that really is clever. And disturbing. Because when every object you see around you, stretching to the horizon, is special, then what on earth happens to the notion of the ordinary?"
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